Recent content by Ryan Todd

I admit that I have only used the minion method. What are you trying to achieve? I feel that you an get a long cook at that temp using the minion method without water in the pan.

How do you season for Jerky? If you want teriyaki or spicy etc ?

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Thanks guys. Chickens came out great. Cooked at a higher temp without water. I wanted to see how I could control temps. Love the WSM. I feel that I can set it for whatever I like. I didn't try to bring it low, and I wanted to keep it around 300- 325. I brought it up to 350 for a few just...

I received the WSM in March of 2014, I only know that because of a FB post. Today I am doing my first higher heat smoke without water. I'm cooking two whole chickens flat. I'm at 1;17 and temps are at top grate 324, middle 315 and dome at 290. After a year I'm still confused by the...

Very good explanation. I will experiment with cook temps. Maybe today with some chicken.

I smoked some baby back ribs and a small pork shoulder yesterday. The shoulder was 3.84 pounds. So, the rule of thumb is 1.5 hours for every pound. I wanted to get this up to 190 as I wanted pulled pork. This thing went on around 9:30 AM. I was smoking at 225 for the most part, but it...

Well hell...glad it all worked out. I read almost this entire thread. I think I skipped ahead around page 4 or 5. Lots of opinions. I'm going in for my first brisket on Friday. Still going through my internal debate on the route to take...but what else is new. Great job on your cook...

Thank you all.

Well Bob, that's just it. As I read about cooking the meatloaf it is a higher temperature cook - 325-350 vs the ribs at a lower temperature 250 or so. So I'm trying to figure out how to cook them at the same time under these parameters. No experience in using the smoker, I let ignorance and...

Hi all: I'd like to cook up some ribs this weekend and a meatloaf - at the same time. I think the ribs need to be cooked low and slow, but the loaf at higher temps. I was thinking to put the meatloaf on the lower grill with ribs up on top. Not sure what kind of ribs yet. Probably baby...

Hi Bob. I'm in Corona as well.

Hello: Picked up a new WSM 18.5 a few weeks ago, but hadn't touched it until Sunday. Cooked two chickens cut in half with the water pan full. Temp ran very high at first - over 300. I had a digital probe inserted in the center whatchyamcallit. Dome thermometer was running definitely higher...